07/22/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/22/2025 12:14
NYLAG Vice President Shani Adess, who previously worked as the associate director of NYLAG's Domestic Violence Law Unit, spoke with NPR/WAMC radio and "51%" podcast host Jesse King about domestic violence law and what survivor-centered and trauma informed advocacy looks like for folks navigating New York's legal system.
"The best thing that we can do is to make people's worlds bigger. So, whenever they're ready, they can engage with us.
And that we should - as individuals, as a community, as the systems that survivors are engaging with - trust survivors when they come forward and make ourselves as accessible as possible to them so that they don't face another barrier that could impede their ability to reclaim their lives as they're trying to.
Listen to the full conversation on NPR/WAMC Northeast Public Radio's "51%" program, originally aired and published on July 17, 2025.
NYLAG client Derlis, an 11th-grader in Ridgewood, Queens, reunited with his family on July 18 after a month-long ICE detention in Texas.
The City's proposed FY26 budget includes $74.7 million for immigration legal services - a lifeline for NYLAG's work in this dire moment.
NYLAG attorneys, like Rebecca Rubin, spoke with Gothamist about the conditions immigrants detained in federal holding rooms in Lower Manhattan are reporting.
NYLAG secured a settlement late last month with the Department of Housing & Preservation Development (HPD) in which HPD agreed to begin posting all inspection results in NYCHA buildings starting Sept. 15.
In his first public statement since being detained by ICE in May, Bronx high schooler Dylan spoke on his detention and desire to be reunited with his family and friends.
Shanna Tallarico, formerly the Director of NYLAG's Consumer Protection Project, spoke with New York Focus on the NYLAG class action suit that went after predatory loan collectors and improper service.